IRVAPP SPRING SCHOOL 2009 - Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies

IRVAPP SPRING SCHOOL 2009 - Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies

IRVAPP is organising a training course for Ph.D students and researchers on “Fundamentals and Methods for the Evaluation of Public Policies” to be held in April and May 2009. The course is designed to be of particular benefit to students of Ph.D. programmes in the Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, willing to know how to use micro data to inform policy making.
The course will present the 1) fundamental principles of impact evaluation analysis with a specific focus on the counterfactual theory of causal inference and 2) the statistical methods and techniques for counterfactual analysis. The above topics will be presented through a selection of case studies. In particular, the course will examine the logics of the counterfactual analysis in experimental and non-experimental settings; impact evaluation in non-experimental settings; difference-in-differences; matching, regression discontinuity design, and instrumental variables estimators. Extensive laboratory sessions will provide the opportunity to apply the various techniques using the software Stata and real data sets.
The course is arranged in two parts. It will run over five consecutive days of theoretical sessions from 20th April to 24th April, and over two consecutive days of practical sessions from May 12th to May 13th 2009. The maximum number of participants is 20.
Date:
20/04/2009 to 24/04/2009
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